Location Services & MDM

My company recently rolled out the ability for us to access corporate resources such as email, calendar, WIFI, and VPN on our personal iPhones using a product called MobileIron. MobileIron administers profiles that include policies such as mandatory passcodes and backup encryption, etc. This all worked great and I was impressed with the ease of use. However, I noticed that the MobileIron application continuously was using the phone's location services. This raised a privacy flag, so I banned the application from using location services. Doing this caused my device to go "out of sync" and my IT department told me that location services were a requirement to be able to access these corporate resources.
My question is why would this application need access to location services in order to provide me with unrelated services such as email and calendar? I understand that MobileIron is an implementation of Apple's Mobile Device Management platform, so does this platform require location services to be enabled in order to remotely administer my device? Are there any legitimate security / management reasons for this requirement?

Actually using location services is the only way to validate if a system is jailbroken. Apple used to have these restrictions in their MDM environment but no longer cares about jailbreak validation. Yes MobileIron solely uses location services for detetcing jailbroken phones. It can also be used to locate lost ot stolen phones but that is not the reason it is required. The sole reason is for the jailbreak detection.
I completely think this is more than appropriate for a company to monitor any mobile devices that have their proprietary and intellectual property or undisclosed information on said devices. If you want to use your companies exchange/lotus servers they should also have the ability to locate, wipe, sever ties to their mail servers in case of theft, termination of employment etc.
Why shouldn't they have a right to control their data at all times? Even if it is a employee owned device, if it has an exchange profile for that company then they have the rights to monitor and access that data whenever they choose. Seems pretty logical.
The real beef should be with Apple for the horrid battery life location services causes. They should also provide the API's necessary for detecting jailbroken devices and the other various consistency checks needed in MDM. That would be a good median to both sides of this discussion.

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my goal is to do the same from the MDM.
I have Apple Configurator up and running and I have an Intune account, but I couldn't find any way to do it from any of them :/
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I know this is old but I’m trying to clean up old posts. Did you ever solve this? If so it would be good if you could post the solution to assist others. If not, at this stage,
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